Caldera IPA | Caldera Brewing Company

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Oregon brews some of the best craft beers in the USA - easily said, if you take the classic West Coast beers and add an extra twist to them you get Oregon beers.
This Caldera IPA is also exceptional: pours with a lovely honey-like golden amber color and the smell is just amazing. Earth, more pine and a slight citrusiness is what you get, but if you smell it longer you can decipher different kinds of hops in there, which is amazing, I never had such thing before!
The taste is a rich, perfectly balanced hoppy IPA: you have enough malts all the way that escort the taste all the way from the beginning to the end and you always get a bit of malt sweetness along with the fruitiness - and very well balanced because it never gets too sweet not too malty. Very pale ale malt-like. Then about the hops: could be that Oregon pulls one of their originals here that resemble Citra but is different, much pinier, or it is Centennial, not sure - but the feeling is awesome: you have a constant hop intensity and on the top of it all you get another layer of different hops, as if it was lingering above the rest. Could be the hops used during cold hopping? This is very intensive and brings a smile on your face. The complexity and perfect brewing mastery is outstanding, it is a great experience to sip this beer. No wonder why Oregon is outstanding, they really have sonething different there than anywhere else...

This was poured into a nonic pint glass. The appearance was a nice hazy burnt golden orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. Light lacing speckled the glass nicely. The smell had a sweet to bitter citrus rind with a sharp pine rolling in to balance. The taste was mainly a sweet to bitter blend of citrus and pineyness. A lingering bittersweet pine invades in the aftertaste and leads to a bitter finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation pounded appropriately to provide a nice harshness strutting over my tongue. Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA that I would have again.

12 oz can courtesy of Rnewt pours a clear, light copper color with a tight-bubbled off-white head. Meh retention and some decent lace.

Nose is pine, caramel hops and maybe a touch of grapefruit rind. Smells old school PacNW IPA for sure.

Taste has the usual simcoe/centennial hop flavors and plenty of bitterness, but what is really impressive is the creamy malt flavors and body. Its really well done with biscuit, light caramel and grainy malt stealing the show. Im not typically a fan of malty IPAs but this one has a little something special going for it with the creamy body, fine carbonation and smooth malt profile.

-deep amber can pour with 1 cm of fine foam. Aroma is sweet malt. Flavor base is deep, toasted malt with some caramel. The hop bite is significant, resin, pine and a touch of citrus are noted. I am enjoying this IPA and would pick it up again.